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To: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
cc: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>, "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
       "d.c" <aradorlinux@yahoo.es>, tytso@mit.edu, cs@tequila.co.jp,
       galibert@pobox.com, kernel@crazytrain.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> 
   of "Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:58:58 CDT." <3757.10.10.10.24.1108659538.squirrel@linux1> 
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:52:45 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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"Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> said:
> On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Friesen said:
> > If you look at the archives, there have been a *lot* of people saying
> > very much the same thing as you.  I suspect people are getting tired of
> > giving the same responses all the time.
> >
> > Here is what Linus had to say about it a while back:
> >
> >     If people in the open-source SCM community wake up and notice that
> >     the current open-source SCM systems aren't cutting it, that's _good_.
> >     But it's absolutely NOT an excuse to use them today.  Sorry.  I use
> >     CVS at work, and I could never use it for Linux.  I took a look at
> >     subversion, and it doesn't even come close to what I wanted.
> >
> >     And I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology. In
> >     fact, I will go as far as saying that making excuses for bad tools
> >     due to ideology is _stupid_, and people who do that think with their
> >     gonads, not their brains.

> Yes, I do remember that post.  But i'm not arguing from an ideological
> basis; i'm arguing on practical grounds that the price of using BK is too
> high for its supposed benefits.

"Best tool for the job" certainly includes minutiae like "benefits" and
"price". 

>                                  I've not seen anyone else make that
> argument here on the list and it is something that Linus may not have
> given full consideration to.   At least the comment that you quote gives
> no consideration to it at all.

It doesn't do so overtly, no. Doesn't mean it wasn't part of the equation.
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